Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear - General Discussion https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear AllGunStuff Discussion Board en-US Fri, 15 May 2026 13:37:06 +0000 wpForo 60 Re: Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear/paged/2#post-6528 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:26:08 +0000
You could probably convert this into a bit of a side-hustle for beer money.


Some members of my club saw the carriers I made and twisted my arm gently to make a batch for them. I Got 20 to the point where they were profiled and polished yesterday but I think that had already burned up approx 10 hours. There will still be a an hour or two to mold the belt tails and retention fingers.

I've done a bit of googling and have found Chinese videos of PVC pipe being lazer cut. Anyone know if there is a local company who can do lazer or waterjet or some other method? ]]> General Discussion oafpatroll https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear/paged/2#post-6528 Re: Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear/paged/2#post-4966 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 01:19:42 +0000
Now just to do some water transfer painting. Can make some pretty interesting paterns that look quite professional.

You could probably convert this into a bit of a side-hustle for beer money.


I'm more stuck in the mud than 'old school' so would probably break out in hives if I were to decorate a piece of gear with skulls or american eagles or such like but I know there's definitely a market for it. The nes in the pics haven't been tumbled yet and that really finishes them off nicely leaving a completely uniform and matte surface. It works equally well on the ABS I use for sheaths and holster.

I have thought about the side hustle thing and the key would be a rapid and precise way to do the cutting. I can get sheet water jet or lazer cut at very reasonable rates but not pipe. To make it viable in the absence of CNC cutting I'd need to get a steel jig made up that I could use to guide a flush cut router bit or something along those lines. The real overhead is in trimming and polishing so precision cutting that allows for the finishing to be done in a tumbler is the only way it would be viable. An additional issue is that I'd need to get hands on the most popular loader makes and models to be able to make steel templates as the critical dimensions all vary.   ]]> General Discussion oafpatroll https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear/paged/2#post-4966 Re: Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4965 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:39:46 +0000
You could probably convert this into a bit of a side-hustle for beer money.]]> General Discussion janfred https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4965 Re: Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4946 Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:16:39 +0000
Last thing to do is add skate tape sections on the loader body lined up with the grasping windows for a death grip and to aid in indexing the loader in the hand so that they are in the same orientation when you go for for the insert into the cylinder. 

]]> General Discussion oafpatroll https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4946 Re: Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4935 Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:19:38 +0000
It works like a bomb and with a template will be easy and quick to cut out. I will not be finishing the 6 I need by hand as it's a ball ache but will rather deburr and polish them in my wet brass tumbler.

When I think of how much of a mission this design is to make from sheet I can understand how the guy I stole it from was charging 70 dollars a piece. Making it from a PVC pipe is a couple banana exercise by comparison and I think that 2mm thick PVC is actually a better material for the application than Kydex as it's stiffer.

His design rendered in Kydex required a complicated arrangement to allow a double layer in the belt hook, I assume to stiffen it up enough while using material thin enough to make the loader releasable with reasonable force.





]]> General Discussion oafpatroll https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4935 Re: Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4896 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 04:23:03 +0000
Artist and illustrator William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was famed for his brilliant cartoons of ludicrously intricate and complex contraptions, apparently designed to carry out the most mundane tasks or sometimes no tasks at all.

Some of these were even made and displayed in public places to hugely amusing effect.

The term “Heath-Robinson” came to be applied to anything that looked outrageously complicated and was even used for an early computer designed to crack the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.

There’s a delightful compilation of Heath Robinson’s cartoons and designs called Very Heath Robinson by Adam Hart-Davis which gives many examples plus lots of information about the man himself.




AH! ok thank you!  8)]]> General Discussion zguy https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4896 Re: Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4895 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:40:22 +0000
Some of these were even made and displayed in public places to hugely amusing effect.

The term “Heath-Robinson” came to be applied to anything that looked outrageously complicated and was even used for an early computer designed to crack the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.

There’s a delightful compilation of Heath Robinson’s cartoons and designs called Very Heath Robinson by Adam Hart-Davis which gives many examples plus lots of information about the man himself.

]]> General Discussion Tripodmvr https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4895 Re: Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4894 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:08:34 +0000
]]> General Discussion oafpatroll https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4894 Re: Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4893 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:04:07 +0000

I saw the blue pipe and thought that might blend in better with your clothing. The name "Heath Robinson" ring a bell?


Are you Heath on GS ?


I'm not and have the same name here and there. Flattered for the opportunity to be mistaken for him though. He has machining skills and equipment that I seriously envy. I'm more of a hand mills and sandpaper dabbler. ]]> General Discussion oafpatroll https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4893 Re: Some ghetto grade DIY rollie gear https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4892 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 01:24:29 +0000
I saw the blue pipe and thought that might blend in better with your clothing. The name "Heath Robinson" ring a bell?


Are you Heath on GS ?]]> General Discussion zguy https://systemz.online/general-discussion/some-ghetto-grade-diy-rollie-gear#post-4892